Hello Arnie,
Thank you for your reply. I'll study your reference. In the meanwhile, could you give me pointers to the implementations you've referred to?
One of those solutions that implement BES and JSDL (also mentioned in that document) is ARC, see e.g. http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc1/trunk/ There's no DRMAA in ARC though. Cheers, Oxana
Thanks! Arnie
Steven Newhouse wrote:
One of the things the Thebes consortium is working on is a job acceptance service that can accept jobs, translate them to DRMAA, and submit them to job schedulers. Our intention is to include the ability to accept SAML assertions to make policy decisions.
The Basic Execution Service and the HPC Basic Profile are well established web service interfaces that take in a web service message. Their use with other specifications to run jobs on remote computing resources is described in the ISV Remote Computing primer (http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/gfd.php?gfd=141) with implementations by open source and commercial software providers. I would suggest looking at these.
The use of DRMAA within the web service to submit to a local scheduler is great to get portability of the web service to different schedulers.
If you have requirements beyond this you might want to look at the work that is just starting in the OGF in the Production Grid Infrastructure Working Group - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/pgi-wg. Details of all the specifications can be found through the OGF web pages.
Steven
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